Selected quad for the lemma: house_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
house_n	contrary_a	king_n	white_a	190,566	5	12.3118	5	true
house_n	contrary_a	king_n	white_a	190,566	5	12.3118	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93939	The siege of Antwerp. Written in Latin by Famianus Strada, Englished by Tho: Lancaster, Gent.	Strada, Famiano, 1572-1649.; Lancaster, Thomas, gent.	1656 (1656)	Wing S5781; Thomason E1612_2; ESTC R208442	87,922	211

THE SIEGE OF ANTWERP Written in Latin by FAMIANVS STRADA Englished by THO LANCASTER Gent. DeVM CoLe LONDON Printed by W. W. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Armes in St Paules Churchyard ERRATA IN the first verses line the last blot out wisely p. 5. l. 22. before it read else p. 6. l. 6. p. 7. l. the last for file r. board p. 8. l. 9. for ber r. his p. 13. l. the last blot out by force p. 19. l. 13. r. contrary ib. l. 15. r. rooks for kings p. 23. l. 17. for first r. one p. 36. l. 9. for kings r. queens ib l. 11. for queenes r. kings p. 42. l. 7. for second r. bishops third p. 36. l. 1. r. contrary queens bishops pawa p. 67. l. 11. for 39 read this p. 68. l. 13. r. her bishops p. 86. l. the last read White knight p. 93. l. 12. r. his house p. 100. l. 10. r. one house p. 107. l. 19. r. 76 p. 111. l. 3. r. White kings p. 112. l. 2. r. takes p. 28. l. 12. p. 32. l. 6. p. 50. l. 16. p. 58. l. 26. p. 72. l. 4 and at the beginning of Gambett. viij xxiv xxxiij xxxiv xxxv lviij make this mark vvv p. 72. l. 7. and Gambett xlvj lix make this mark vvvv TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE CARYLL Lord MOLLINEUX VISCOVNT MARIBROVGH c. My Lord BEing about to publish these first fruits of my studies I found my selfe not as others in need only of a patron for my Book but of a Gardian also for my selfe Whose yeares as yet exempt me not from the tutelage of others and whose attempts in this kind will scarce be freed from presumption temerity But yet I was no little animated when I understood how much your LORD-ship was pleased to favour me as to condescend that this little Treatise might beare in the front your HONOURS name inscribed I confesse it is too unequall a taske for one of my yeares so little verst in the curiosity of either language the subject being so serious the variety of passages so full the Authors expressions not of the Vulgar straine Notwithstanding when I reflected on your Lordships courteous disposition love of learning and promptnesse to further any laudable undertaking I went on with greater alacrity not doubting but I had found a fit Mecaenas whose frownes would not blast my little learning in the bud but rather whose cherishing glances would bring it to maturity Arts come not to perfection but by degrees and if weake beginnings had found no foster fathers I know not if the world would have flourished with so many eminent person for learning as it hath My intention in this translation was to profit my selfe and therefore I had rather be instructed by others in what I am defective then be applauded for any thing which may seeme to be passable But whatsoever it is I present it to your Lordship as a testimony of the due service I owe to your Honour And in this my desire is that not so much the booke though otherwise in the Originall not unworthy your Lord-ships perusall where valour worth are not slightly shadowed as the sincere affection and duty wherewith I offer it may be regarded This is the height of my wishes and chiefest pretence of Your Lordships most humble servant THOMAS LANCASTER The Translator to the Reader Courteous Reader HAving lately left off our Country Schooles I was not minded to lose that little I had learned wherefore I applyed my selfe to peruse some of the best latine authors and though I sought to better my selfe in the language yet to digge and labour in the Quarry of choice words and still to be hewing and squaring out latine phrases onely I thought too servile unlesse the matter it selfe also yeelded some sweetnesse and content which made me walke forth into the pleasant fields of History in which I found a rare mixture of pleasure and profit where the matter it selfe with variety of passages informeth and delighteth the understanding and the elegant words and delivery teacheth the tongue and pen to expresse Amongst the rest I fell upon a moderne master-piece in that kinde viz. Famianus Strada of the Low-country Warrs and of all other parts I was most taken and not without just reason with the Siege of Antwerp contained in the sixth and part of the seventh booke of his second decade A compleate History of it selfe and to those that understand it in the Originall as exact a piece perhaps as hither to hath beene published wanting neither worth in the actours nor ability in the writer This for my owne private practise I assayed to translate which after shewing to some friends to whose judgement and anthority it were presumption in me not to subscribe their pleasure and desire was to have it sent to the presse Nor doe I doubt but if in playing the Translators part I could neer have paralel'd the latine relation little had beene wanting to have made this small Teatise appearing in our Country habit gratefull to the perusers But how can that bee expected from a Schoole-boy for neither by age nor knowledge dare I assume more to my selfe having not passed the eighteenth yeare of my age nor saluted any University or Schoole of more eminent learning nor yet travelled to converse with those of a more terse style and consequently lesse able to treate of so serious a subject and shadow in our native colours the deepe expressions and language of so grave an Author For my presumption herein I expect not but to be censured when others of greater ability have not escaped the browes of Critickes But yet my nonage may afford mee this advantage that what others point at as a fault I may learne to amend for as yet I cannot despaire of bettering my selfe in learning for the future The right Worshipfull Sir Robert Stapylton hath highly merited of our Country men by sowing this field with our English seede having with exquisite skill and generall applause to their pleasures and profits published the first Decade of Strada and may perhaps produce the second of which this is a part Why doe I then presume to thrust my sickle into his corne That worthy learned man I trust will not be offended if I gleane one sheafe out of his rich harvest who will thereby neither become poorer nor his worke of lesse value even in this part when the judicious Reader shall see how far his pure language and expressions doe surpasse those bare lines of mine the whole disparagement will fall upon my selfe As for the injury I may seeme to doe to the Author by not publishing the whole worke how can that bee imputed to me as a crime Hee wants not his due desert in the Originall nor is hee wronged if neither I nor any else should make him a Denizon of our Country Why then should I bee taxed for making him free at least in part Nor wants there